provinces

英 [ˈprɒvɪnsɪz]

美 [ˈprɑvənsəz]

n.  省份; (某些国家的)一级行政区; 首都以外的地区; 知识(或兴趣、职责)范围; 领域
province的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 省
  Aprovinceis a large section of a country which has its own administration.
  1. ...the Algarve, Portugal's southernmost province.
     阿尔加维， 葡萄牙最南部的省份
• N-PLURAL 外省（首都以外的地区）
  The provincesare all the parts of a country except the part where the capital is situated.
  1. The government plans to transfer some 30,000 government jobs from Paris to the provinces.
     政府计划将3万个左右的政府职位从巴黎转移到外省。
• N-SING （兴趣、知识、责任的）范围，领域
  If you say that a subject or activity is a particular person'sprovince, you mean that this person has a special interest in it, a special knowledge of it, or a special responsibility for it.
  1. Arvo avoided committing himself. 'I'm afraid that's not my province,' he replied...
     阿尔沃不想作出承诺，“恐怕那不归我管，”他回答说。
  2. Industrial research is the province of the Department of Trade and Industry.
     工业研究属贸易和工业部的职责范围。

双语例句

• The Grand Canal flows southwards through the four provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
  大运河纵贯河北、山东、江苏、浙江四省。
• I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom to have that photograph.
  我可以告诉你，为了得到那张照片，我愿意拿我领土中的一个省来交换。
• The newly-built road opened the way to the economic intercourse between the two provinces.
  新修的这条公路为两省的经济交流打开了方便之门。
• In 1823 Honduras became a part of the United Provinces of Central America.
  1823年，洪都拉斯成为了中美洲联邦的一部分。
• The two provinces are demarcated by a river.
  两省以河流分界。
• The cases have been reported from four provinces: Anhui, Hunan, Guangxi, and Liaoning.
  这些病例是4个省报告的：安徽、湖南、广西和辽宁。
• The railway will benefit several provinces.
  这条铁路有益于几个省。
• Cases have now been reported from five provinces.
  病例报告目前来自五个省。
• The Yi nationality is distributed mainly over Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces.
  彝族主要分布在云南、四川和贵州三省。
• Road traffic between Hunan and Guangdong provinces has also ground to a halt.
  湖南和广东之间的公路运输也停止了。